Toy film-burster.



vPATEN'IED JUNE 23, 1908.

H. GOTTHELL.

TOY FILM BURSTER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.9, 1907.

WITNESSES:

INVENTOR.

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HERBERT OOTTRELL, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY,

TOY FILM-BURSTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 9, 1907.

Patented June 23, 1908.

Serial No. 351,411.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT CoTTRELL, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of NewJersey, have invented a new and useful Toy Film-Burster, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a toy in which a strip of paperor other film,

may be bursted in successive perforations by means of compressed air toproduce a loud explosive report, without any-of the danger attending theuse of ordinary toy fire-arms. I attain these objects by means of thedevice illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1, is an external View of the toy complete. Fig. 2 is a sectionalview on the line ww Fig. 1.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several views.

My invention is preferably formed of metal; the cylinder at isfitted'with a piston it up on rod f which may be operated by handle 6,to compress air therein. Rod f is guided by means of cap (1 on the endof cylinder a. On the end of cylinder a opposite to cap (1, is securedan enlarged tubular screw threaded socket b, which is preferably made ofmetal and has a screw thread' spun or pressed therein; it is secured tocylinder a by means of a collar portion fitted upon the outside of saidcylinder a and is soldered or otherwise attached thereto. Socket Z) isprovided with open slots 7c, located on opposite sides of the socket, asshown in Fig. 2, for the purpose of passing a strip of paper or otherfilm m through, and across the mouth of cylinder a. Said slots are of apredetermined size, being of a length less than the diameter of thesocket within which they are formed, to limit the size of the strip orfilm being used and to guide it while being fed throughthe toy. Atubular flared mouthpiece c has its lower portion formed with a screwcorresponding to socket b and its edge is turned inwardly to adapt it toclamp film m between it and shoulder of socket b. The end of thecylinder at and the inturned edge of the mouth piece a form opposingseats which have a relative movement toward-and from each other by meansof the screw-threaded connection shown. Said seats are of less internaldiameter than the length of the slots, the slots being arrangedrelatively to the seats in such manner as to permit the strip to extendentirely over the open end of the cylinder and provide edge portionswhich are normall clamped between the seats. The enlarge end of mouthpiece a is turned over to give strength thereto so that it may befirmly-grasped in the hand when screwing it down upon strip m.

When the film strip m is held clamped be tween socket b and mouth piece0 the iston it may be operated to com ress air in cy inder a, thepressure of air wil burst the film 'm, and the explosive report producedwill be am lified by the flaring mouth piece a to a slig t extent, thestrip or film m will be released, leaving the edge portions of thestrip, which have been clamped, intact, so that the strip may be drawnthrough the slots is to i provide a new portion of the strip in properposition for the bursting o eration, whereupon the strip may again eclamped and bursted; thus a long strip may be used in successiveburstings, to produce loud explosive reports, the slots providing for aproper positioning of the strip between the seats without the necessityof particularly adjusting or using care in the-manipulation of orplacing in position of the'strip between the seats, so that the burstingoperation may be continued with rapidity. Furthermore, the fact that theslots each have closed ends, prevents the accidental dropping or theloss of the strip while the toy is being carried about or when beingpositioned in the toy.

What I claim is A toy of the character described comprising a tubularportion constituting a piston cylinder, a cap attached to one end ofsaid tubular portion, a threaded annular member having a contractedlower portion, said contracted lower portion of said annular membersecured to that end of the tubular portion 0 posite the end providedwith a cap, the b0 y portion of said annular member being of greaterdiameter than said tubular portion, the said body portion of saidannular member pro- 'vided with a pair of elongated slots arrangedopposite each other, said slots positioned in c ose roximity to saidcontracted part of the annu ar member and constituting seats, and amouth-piece embodying a flaring portion and acylindrical screw-threadedportion, said name to this specification in the presence of cylindricdalscregv-threaded portion Cadapted two subscribing Witnesses. to eXten insai annular member an en a e with the screw threads thereof, the iiinzrHERBERT COTTRELL' edge of said mouth piece adapted to clamp Witnesses: astrip of material to said seat. HOWARD O. CoTTRELL,

In testimony whereof, I have signed my JENNIE M. CROOKE.

